Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 24 September 2025
I totally agree with what Rachael Hamilton said. In a former life, I was the director of roads, transport and environmental services for Glasgow and, every now and again, we had the sort of campaigns that she suggests, working with Keep Scotland Beautiful and Zero Waste Scotland. Those worked to a reasonable extent, but education is also really important. We need to get to the kids so that they chastise their parents for throwing stuff out of the car window. We did not have the budget to carry through on the educational part, which links to what Rachael said. It is all right to have processes for cleaning and emptying bins, but that is not where we need to be. We need education so that people do not do litter: that is the bottom line. We need a mindset change, and the only way to get that is through education.